ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,796, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for detecting brain conditions from cranial movement due to blood flow in the brain" was invented by Wade Smith (San Francisco) and Paul Lovoi (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headset, configured to be attached to a human head, includes an accelerometer providing a signal indicative of head acceleration due to blood flow through the brain. An analyzer evaluates a plurality of samples indicative of acceleration over time where each sample corresponds to the head movement resulting f...